How do I add h264 codec

[Steve Rhoden]

What are you doing with the footage you want rendered as h264?
Vegas does not has this render option directly, but there are
excellent alternatives that’s available…i always use the SonyAVC
format.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956
https://filmex-creative-media.blogspot.com/

[Dave Stalker]

Full res broadcast commercials. We work on Avid, but other stations cannot open spots with Avid codec, so we would like to run them through Vegas and output as h264.

[Stephen Mann]

You can’t render Quicktime H.264 with Vegas, but you can buy Quicktime Pro and render uncompressed MOV out of Vegas and then convert it to H.264 MOV in Quicktime Pro.

Render as:
QT7 (MOV)
Default (uncompressed)
Frame Size – Custom 1440 x 1080, PAR=1.0

Open with Quicktime
Export

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Dave Stalker]

Good workaround. thanks.

[Dani Vasilioglu]

For exporting to H264 I frameserve out of Vegas using Debugmode’s frameserver and encode to X264 using Virtualdub as I don’t like Sony’s default AVC encoding quality.